Attack of the Neptunian Space Beetles from Space, Part 22

But Sally knew that she had to save these adorable (but rather annoying) puppies from the ugly Platypi in order to get home; the prospects of doing this quest in order to save a wonderful race of puppies had withered when she had found out how obnoxious and smelly they were. Now all she wanted was a passage back to Earth.

"Rover, stop eating that turd, hurry up!" she yelled. Rover looked up, his face covered in brown. He made his strongest puppy-eyed cute face and whimpered.
"No Rover, I'm not falling for your cute-face again, come on, we're running out of time, the 4th plasmid sun is about to set!"
Rover whimpered again but got up and started running. The cube fell out of his jacket and onto the three-dimensional ground.
"O Saahwey, I dwopped the cu-ube," said Rover with an asinine puppy face.
"Well go find it!"
"But, but... but Saahwey, could... could *sneeze* *cough* dyou fhind it?"
Sally sighed. She started looking. But as you might imagine, look through a three dimensional surface in three dimensions of time is very difficult.
"Could someone help me here!?" she screamed.
"Saahwey, don't bee ma-ad, pwease?"
"AAAAHHHH" screamed Sally
The Ochlocks could not help because they were in their state of immobile pupal reformation and were splurging out orange fluids from their chrysalises. Lord Azeroth had gone somewhere to find a "yellwow-fwudge-sundayy-ihce-cweam-smwoovie" for the puppies, who had been whining about it the entire time.

She finally found the hyper-hyper-cube and put it in her own pocket.
"Uhhh, puppies, dearest, dearest puppies, I think that the hyper-hyper-cube is missing. Umm...we'll have to keep searching. In the meantime, maybe it would be best if you all went back to the homebase while I searched here!" said Sally, enthusiastically.

"Gee wiz, Saahwey, dat sownds wike a goohd ideeah!" said Rover.
"Yeah?" asked Sally.
"Wewll bwee aht hwomebwase sif wou nwheed hus! Twell hwus whhen wou fwind we cwhoob!" said Rex.

The puppies left slowly. When they had passed out of sight, Sally ran down the hill and caught up with Lord Azeroth.
"I've lost 'em," exclaimed Sally.
"OK, let's go," said Lord Azathoth.
They set out across the barren waste lands until finally they saw the land of the larval Platypi.

(OP: Ben, December 15 2006)